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  • A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Glass: vertical and horizontal sections of a furnace used in the manufacture of glass. Engraving by Mutlow, 1810, after J. Farey.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a big gun barrel being turned on a lathe. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • A man happy to be returning to the factory after being cured of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after W. Heaslip, 1931.
  • Glass: the interior of a factory with men at work. Engraving by Mutlow, 1810, after J. Farey.
  • Engineering: the Amalgamated Makers' Friendly Society. Engraving by H. Wilkinson after J. Northwood.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: workers in the factory lifting a metal gun barrel with a crane. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • A happy socialist mother, dressed in her workwear, holding her baby, surrounded by productive factories and wheat-fields; advertising International Women's Day, 1951. Colour lithograph after Čermáková, 1951.
  • Clocks: a watch factory at Waltham, Massachusetts. Wood engraving by A J H.
  • Glass: the British flint glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Lithograph.
  • Glass: weighing equipment (above), inside a plate glass factory (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: carpet weaving, a loom in an interior (top), tools (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Soho Manufactory, Soho, Birmingham. Line engraving by T. Radclyffe after F. Calvert.
  • Fry's great name competition / J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd.
  • Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, London: a radial overhead crane for carrying heavy artillery pieces in different sectors of the factory. Lithograph by G. Clausen, 1917.
  • Textiles: a stretching machine [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. D. Herbert.
  • Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured aquatint.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven loom. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule inside an iron-framed spinning shed, workers setting machines and clearing cotton waste, etc. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • Glass: men at work inside a plate glass factory. Engraving, 1747.
  • Glass: the British Flint Glass Makers' Friendly Society. Engraving by H. Wilkinson, 18--, after J. Northwood.